Taylor Swift couldn't assist however get emotional whereas reflecting on the failed terrorist plot that focused certainly one of her Eras Tour live shows in her new Disney+ docuseries, The End of an Era.

The 14-time Grammy winner teared up within the first episode as she mentioned feeling like she was "skating on skinny ice" amid "very violent, scary issues occurring to the tour," together with the plot, which prompted her workforce and native live performance promoters to cancel all of her tour dates in Vienna, Austria, final August.

"We dodged a mass slaughter," Swift mentioned in a clip of her forward of her 5 London live shows in 2024, which had been her first exhibits following the foiled assault.

On Aug. 7, 2024, simply at some point earlier than her scheduled Vienna dates, Swift’s Taylor Nation and live performance promoter Barracuda Music introduced in a joint assertion that the exhibits had been canceled following "affirmation from authorities officers of a deliberate terrorist assault at Ernst Happel Stadium."

That very same month, CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen said that the terrorists had been "plotting to kill an enormous quantity, tens of 1000’s of individuals" at Swift's Vienna live performance, The New York Times reported.

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“The Austrians had been capable of make these arrests as a result of the company and our companions within the intelligence neighborhood supplied them details about what this ISIS-connected group was planning on doing," he mentioned on the time.

Authorities arrested two suspects in connection to the plot on the time, together with a 19-year-old who was listed as the primary suspect.

A 16-year-old Syrian teenager dwelling in Germany, recognized as Mohammad A., was convicted in August 2025 of "getting ready a severe act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of violence overseas," CBS Information reported. He was given a suspended 18-month sentence.

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Swift addressed the plot in an August 2024 Instagram submit following the conclusion of the European leg of her Eras Tour, saying it was "devastating" to cancel the Vienna dates however that the security of her followers comes first.

"The rationale for the cancellations stuffed me with a brand new sense of concern, and an incredible quantity of guilt, as a result of so many individuals had deliberate on coming to these exhibits," Swift wrote. "However I used to be additionally so grateful to the authorities, as a result of because of them, we had been grieving live shows and never lives."

Whereas discussing the plot in her new docuseries, Swift additionally addressed the knife assault at a Swift-themed dance and yoga class that killed three kids and injured 10 extra in Southport, U.Ok., only one week earlier in July 2024.

As she started to cry, Swift defined that she was getting all of her feelings out in order that she'd be capable of greet the households of the late kids with a smile when assembly them earlier than her London live shows.

A scene later within the docuseries' first episode exhibits Swift strolling away from one of many household meet-and-greets in tears. Her mother, Andrea Swift, will be seen handing her a tissue as Swift hangs her head and sobs.

Following the knife assault, an 18-year-old named Axel Rudakubana pleaded responsible in January 2025 to 3 counts of homicide, 10 counts of tried homicide, one rely of manufacturing the poison ricin, and one other for possessing an Al Qaeda coaching handbook, which is an offense underneath the U.Ok.’s Terrorism Act, the BBC reported. He was sentenced to a minimal of 52 years in jail that very same month.

The primary two episodes of Swift'snewdocuseries, The Finish of an Period, are streaming now on Disney+.

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